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Pro-Russian separatists seize a group of international military | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
observers in Ukraine. As Russia puts on a display of firepower, Ukraine | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
says it fears an imminent invasion and accuses Moscow of wanting to | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
start a new world war. As the tension escalates, Western powers | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
are warning Russia it faces fresh sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Also tonight: The Chancellor, George Osborne, tells the Royal Bank of | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Scotland to reduce the size of planned bonuses for its staff. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
An insult to the dead - the Government vows to find out who used | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Whitehall computers to change the Hillsborough Disaster Wikipedia | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
entry. To me what an utter disgrace that | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
is, for anybody, for anybody to be spoken to about like that. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
A rose from a refugee - the children fleeing Syria forced to sell flowers | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
on the streets of Lebanon to survive. We have a special report. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
And, bye bye baby - Prince George and his parents head home at the end | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
of their tour of Australia and New Zealand. | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
In Sportsday: Manchester United's interim manager Ryan Giggs vows to | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
bring passion, excitement and flair back to Old Trafford. | :01:22. | :01:39. | |
Good evening. Russia is being warned that it is facing a new wave of | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
sanctions from America and Europe over the crisis in Ukraine. It comes | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
after pro-Russian separatists detained a group of international | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
military observers in the town of Sloviansk as they were travelling | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
across Eastern Ukraine. Earlier, two Ukrainian military aircraft were | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
destroyed at the Kramatorsk Airport in what Kiev called an act of | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
sabotage. And, as the tension continues to grow, the Ukrainian | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
Prime Minister has claimed that Russia is keen on starting a third | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
world war. Our Correspondent Daniel Sandford is in Eastern Ukraine. | :02:12. | :02:21. | |
Powerful rockets roaring into the sky in southern Russia today as the | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Kremlin publicly flexed its muscles again. As the Russian Foreign | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Minister accused Europe and America of making a land-grab for Ukraine. | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
TRANSLATION: The West wants, this is how it all began, to seize control | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
of Ukraine because of their own political ambitions and not for the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
interests of the Ukrainian people. But on the ground in eastern Ukraine | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
it is the pro-Russian militia that are causing the problems. Here in | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Sloviansk the most militant town, they took a group of seven | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
international military observers prisoner, claiming they were | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
travelling with the Ukrainian spy. In response, the Government in Kiev | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
has been setting up checkpoints close to Sloviansk in an attempt to | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
restore some order. The Ukrainian army say they're trying to close the | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
net around Sloviansk, to try to prevent the armed revolt spreading. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
But Russia immediately called on Kiev to halt all military action in | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
eastern Ukraine. At the nearby airport, the armed pro-Russian | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
militia seemed to have scored another success, a helicopter was | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
destroyed on the ground causing troops to fan out across the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
airfield. America said the unrest was an attempt by Moscow to | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
discredit next month's presidential election in Ukraine. Russia has | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
instead chosen an illegitimate course of armed violence to try and | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
achieve with the barrel of a gun and the force of a mob, what couldn't be | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
achieved any other way. They've tried to create enough chaos in the | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
east to delay or delegitimise the elections. Kiev has a problem in | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
eastern Ukraine beyond the pro-Russian gunmen. Kicking a ball | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
around after work this evening was one 25-year-old who summed up the | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
general disquiet here. TRANSLATION: The people want more | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
lights, no one is listening to us. The Kiev Government isn't listening | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
to us. They're sending in the army. This region has a proud history of | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
coal mining and agriculture. With the Ukrainian Prime Minister | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
accusing Russia of wanting to start world war three, and America | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
threatening Moscow with further sanctions, this beautiful landscape | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
has suddenly become the frontline in the old rivalry between east and | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
west. Although much of this region is | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
separate separating -- operating normally the situation has | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
deteriorated badly the last few days. Not only have those military | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
observers been detained but several other people have been taken | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
prisoner and many journalists were threatened with guns today. All the | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
while, the Ukrainian army is closing in, though it seems unlikely that | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
they'll try to storm the town. Diplomacy seems to have completely | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
stalled. Only over a week ago America and Russia were sitting | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
around the negotiating table in Geneva. Now they're just berating | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
each other from opposite sides of the world. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
The Government has blocked plans by Royal Bank of Scotland to pay its | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
staff bonuses up to twice the amount of their salary. The bank, which is | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
mostly owned by the taxpayer, made a pre-tax loss of ?8.2 billion last | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
year - the highest since the financial crisis began. The | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Chancellor, George Osborne, says it's right to restrict bonuses when | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
RBS still has a long way to go. Our business editor Kamal Ahmed has | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
more. It has been a day when big banking | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
and powerful politics clashed and powerful politics came out on top. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
RBS wanted to be allowed to pay executives bonuses of up to twice | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
their salary. The Government, which owns 80% of RBS, rejected the | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
proposals, demanding a lower cap. At a visit to a new Science Centre in | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Cambridge the Chancellor told me why it was so important to keep a check | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
on bankers' pay. The new team at RBS have done a huge amount to repay | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
what went badly wrong. But there is still a long way to go. Therefore, | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
we made it clear that in circumstances it was not right to | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
increase the bonus cap. I am glad that RBS have agreed with that. I am | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
also glad that total pay at RBS is coming down. | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
Within the bank, they believe the decision will make it harder for RBS | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
to complete its rescue plan. The bank argues if you cannot pay as | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
well as competition, performance will suffer. Won't RBS be made | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
weaker by the fact it will be less competitive in the market for the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
top executives? It's clear that RBS can not only keep the key people it | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
needs but hire people it needs and the overall pay approach that the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
board have set out today is one that I support. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
This clash has been coming for a while. It was the beginning of the | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
year when the leader of the opposition first raised the issue of | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
RBS's pay. RBS are talking to parts of the Government about the proposal | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
to pay over 100% bonuses. The taxpayer will foot the bill. Will he | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
put a stop to it right now by telling RBS to drop this idea? | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Leaving the Government with a tricky problem, if it agreed to the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
increase. It is right this cap is applied on bonuses to RBS. The irony | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
is George Osborne's been forced to do it because of public pressure and | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
pressure from Labour while at the same time he has a legal case in | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Brussels to stop these rules applying. The Government says there | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
is no contradiction. It doesn't agree with the EU rules to cap | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
bonuses, but it is going to use the powers while they're available. Here | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
in the City tonight, some argue the constant focus on pay is missing the | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
bigger picture, how to make RBS valuable enough so the Government | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
can sell its stake. The share price has risen by 1% in the last year, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
still below where the taxpayer could get value for money. Many think | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
today's announcement has pushed a sale even further into the future. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
RBS says the business is getting better but five years on from the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
financial crisis, it is still a bank in the headlines for all the wrong | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
reasons. New tougher rules are being | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
introduced from midnight which could determine build you -- whether you | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
could get a mortgage. Here is our personal finance | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
correspondent Simon Gompertz. Applying for a mortgage used to be | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
so simple, do little more than fill in your name, age and salary and you | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
would get a loan worth four times that. Not any more. From tomorrow, | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
mortgage applicants will face questions on their spending on | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
everything from childcare and travel, to going out, food bills, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
even gambling. It will all affect how high your borrowing can go. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
Lenders have been phasing in the new system so it's already had an impact | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
on borrowers like Clare in London. Tougher questioning resulted in her | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
mortgage offer being cut by thousands of pounds. I had to take | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
out a loan from the bank. The mortgage - the application was going | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
through and they discovered that and it threw a spanner in the works. It | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
resulted in less money and delaying the process even further. Clare's | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
mortgage broker complains questions being asked about haircuts, milk | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
bills and going to the gym are too intrusive. Gym membership is a | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
lifestyle choice. It could be cancelled at any time. Therefore, | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
why should the lender see that as a commitment when really all it is is | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
someone choosing how they spend their surplus funds on themselves? | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Mortgage interviews will then home in on a big what if. What if the | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
mortgage rate shoots up to 7%, more than double what most people are | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
paying? Will you be able to meet the bill? The man who oversees mortgage | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
lending says he is just making sure buyers don't overstretch themselves. | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
We would all love to live in expensive mansions in Chelsea, I | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
expect, but this is about getting people into homes they can afford. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
There are already worries about another housing bubble. More careful | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
lending might skim off some of that froth from house prices. | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
The Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, has urged the Scottish people to vote | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
against independence insisting that only Labour can deliver social | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
justice for everyone in the UK. Speaking in Glasgow, where the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Shadow Cabinet was meeting, Mr Miliband accused the Scottish | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
National Party of trying to pump up the idea of another Tory Government | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
in order to win votes. Here's our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon. | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
We have a matter of a referendum... Bringing together its grass roots | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
and big guns. Labour out Canavans to convince supporters that the party | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
and the union are worth sticking with. Ed Miliband brought his Shadow | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
Cabinet here too to announce plans to protect workers on zero hours | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
contracts. It's the sort of policy Labour hopes will install its leader | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
in Number 10, and help keep Scotland within the union. If we win the | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
election next year, on zero hours, energy prices, show how we can | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
create a better life for working people in Scotland. There's been a | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
perception there aren't Labour activists campaigning for the union, | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
would you conceive there's been a perception problem? We care deeply | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
about what happens to Scotland and the decision it makes. I don't have | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
a vote in that referendum. It's a decision for the people of Scotland. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
I think if we are going to deliver social justice across the United | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
Kingdom, including for the people of Scotland, then we are better off | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
together. Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, thinks differently. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
That only independence would give the country the power it needs to | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
protect workers' rights. September's referendum on independence could | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
well be won or lost in places like Glasgow which have tradely favoured | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Labour. Now voters here are being targeted by both sides. -- | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
traditionally. There are still a lot of people undecided about which way | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
to vote. Alex Bell has supported Labour since he was 15. He is at | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
odds with the party over Scotland's future. How are you going to vote | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
and why? I am going to vote yes. The reason for me is to get rid of New | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Labour. The New Labour experiment has failed Scotland. The chance for | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
independence gives the Labour Party a chance to reinvent itself in | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Scotland, maybe get back to being the party it used to be and still | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
wants to be. The party's leader was given a reminder that not everyone | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
is happy with his approach. You come here and try to tell people we are | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
better together, you should be ashamed. While Labour is a force to | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
be reckoned with in Scotland, this September's vote may be its toughest | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
elect ram test. -- electoral test. Three years of | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
conflict in Syria have had a devastating impact on the lives of | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
many Syrian people. It's estimated that over 2.5 million people have | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
fled the country. Nowhere has been more affected than neighbouring | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
Lebanon, where more than a million people, a quarter of the population, | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
are now Syrian refugees. As our correspondent Paul Wood reports from | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Beirut, Syrians are sending their children onto the streets to make a | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
living. On a beautiful day like this, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
families come out to enjoy the Beirut sunshine. But five-year-old | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
Narmine is working. If she doesn't sell her roses, her family won't | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
eat. She pedals them with a cousin, Bilal, who is ten. Their families | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
fled Aleppo, they can get aid but not enough to pay the bills. So, the | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
children work a ten hour day on the streets. TRANSLATION: Am I happy? | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
Does it matter? We are a family of eight. I have to support my brothers | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
and sisters. I accept my fate. TRANSLATION: I used to love going to | :15:00. | :15:15. | |
school. I hope the war ends in Syria. I want to go home. For now, | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
home is a squalid single room. Narmine's father says that on the | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
street is always out of sight, watching the children. He does that | :15:26. | :15:34. | |
much for them. TRANSLATION: This eats me up inside, but we have to | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
find food and rent. When Narmine gets tired, I take over. But I don't | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
sell as much as her. People buy more from a child. | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Of course, begging and street children didn't arrive in Beirut | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
with Syria's civil war, but there are a lot more of both here now. And | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the few aid agencies which are working in this area say that the | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
overwhelming majority of families who send their children onto the | :16:03. | :16:03. | |
streets are Syrian refugees. Flowers, flowers, he says. This | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
11-year-old is out until the early hours every night. No family member | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
comes to keep an eye on him. He is alone here. Most people don't buy. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
The rose sellers get arrested, robbed, preyed upon by pimps. The | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
streets are no place for a child. This boy and thousands like him have | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
little chance of getting back to school. Their stunted lives are | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
casualties, too, of Syria's civil war. | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
The United States says the Israeli Palestinian peace process needs to | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
take a pause while the two sides decide on their next move. But | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
America is refusing to accept it will fail to meet its goal of a | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
peace deal this month. Yesterday, Israel suspended the talks, after | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
Fatah, the Palestinian faction in the West Bank, announced a unity | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
deal with Hamas, its rival which runs Gaza. Our Middle East Editor | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Jeremy Bowen is in Israel for us. Jeremy, what's America's Plan B? | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
You know, I don't think they have one, particularly. Mr Obama is in | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
his second term and is running out of time to make the big changes | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
which, as a candidate, he really wanted to make in the Middle East. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
He says he doesn't think they will be able to make the hard choices | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
necessary for a deal within six months. More than six months, they | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
have been talking about this, about trying to build a Palestinian state | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
alongside Israel for more than 20 years and they have not got | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
anywhere. It is a long record of failure. That is one reason I think | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
that Fatah went for the unity deal with Hamas, because they are not | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
getting what they want out of talks and there is a current within the | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
PLO that says they have to try a different strategy. Welding eternal | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
unity and also what they call non-violent resistance, which | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
includes the movement for the boycott, disinvestment and | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
sanctions. In other words, trying to isolate Israel in the way that South | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Africa was isolated in the 80s. As for the Israelis, Mr Netanyahu seems | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
happy with the status quo, keeping a lid on things, expanding | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
settlements, Israelis are making good money. But he is warned that, | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
long-term, if there is no Palestinian state, he may be forced | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
to... Ultimately Israelis might be forced to give Palestinians who live | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
under their control the vote. Since most likely Palestinians would be in | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
the majority, that would open up a whole new range of electoral | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
possibilities which many Israelis would certainly fear. A 42-year-old | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
woman accused of murdering her three young disabled children broke down | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
in tears at her first court appearance today. The children's | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
father, Gary Clarence, seen here leaving court, also as his wife was | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
remanded in custody. Ben, Max and four-year-old Olivia were found at | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
the family home in south-west London on Tuesday. The Cabinet Office has | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
said it may be a challenge to find out who was responsible for using a | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
computer in Whitehall to make offensive remarks about the | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
Hillsborough disaster. Alterations were made to the Wikipedia entry | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
about the tragedy in which 96 people were killed. The Cabinet Office said | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
it was sickened by the unacceptable comments. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
The pain of the Hillsborough families continues, as they search | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
for justice for the loved ones who died 25 years ago. Now they have to | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
deal with what the government has described as sickening insults about | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
those foot of funds. The Liverpool Echo revealed that changes had been | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
made to Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia which anybody can | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
edit. A sentence added in 2009 red, blame Liverpool fans. Then the | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
phrase you'll never walk alone was altered, to you'll never walk again. | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
To me, what an utter, utter disgrace that is, for anybody to be spoken | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
to, about like that. The Wikipedia entries were posted from so-called | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
IP addresses used by computers on Whitehall's secure network. | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
Officials have launched an investigation and say they are | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
treating the matter with the utmost seriousness. They admit that | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
identifying the culprits could prove challenging, because hundreds of | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
thousands of civil servants have access to the computer system. | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Labour MP Andy Burnham has been an avid campaign on behalf of | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
Hillsborough victims. He will be able to view all of the relevant | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
material found during the investigation. It is sickening and | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
appalling to think that this kind of abuse was being aimed at the | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
victims, their families and Liverpool supporters in general from | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
the heart of Government. It actually shows what we were up against when | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
we first confronted the Government and establishment over Hillsborough. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
The Government has assured Liverpool fans it is exhausting every option | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
to get to the truth. It's been a turbulent week for one | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
of the world's most famous clubs. Now Manchester United's new interim | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
manager Ryan Giggs is preparing to take charge of his first match | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
tomorrow after David Moyes was sacked. Speaking for the first time | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
since he was appointed, Ryan Giggs said it was the proudest moment of | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
his life. Giggs was part of the famed Class of 92, the players who | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
contributed to much of the club's success under Sir Alex Ferguson and | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
who now dominate the team's coaching staff. Here's our Sports Editor | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
David Bond. Meet the new boss. Ryan Giggs. The | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
eternal winger turned temporary manager. For the next couple of | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
weeks, it's his job to try and lift the gloom surrounding Manchester | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
United. Facing the media today for the first time since David Moyes' | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
messy sacking, we were told we could ask no questions on his dismissal. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
But Giggs knew he had to say something. It has been a difficult | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
week for the club. Obviously it was a shock to me on Tuesday, when I | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
spoke to Ed. He informed me that David was leaving. And then asked me | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
to take over. It's just been a bit of a whirlwind week for me. One of | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
the reasons for Moyes' departure was his sterile brand of football. Giggs | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
has a different vision. Well, it's going to be my philosophy. You know, | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
obviously Manchester United's philosophy because I've been here | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
for all my career. I want the players to play with passion, speed, | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
tempo, be brave, imagination. All the things I expect of a Manchester | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
United player. This has been a dreadful week for Manchester United. | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
While Ryan Giggs has lifted the spirits around the place, that's | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
just a temporary fix. They now have a huge decision to make. They know | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
it's one that they have to get right. So, who could be the next | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
chosen one? The Netherlands coach, Louis van Gaal, has been sounded out | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
and seems to be the favourite. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
appeared to rule himself out today. But could he still be tempted? The | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
Real Madrid boss, Carlo Ancelotti, could offer the best solution. One | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
United legend says the club need a safe pair of hands. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
I think they'll probably go with an experienced type of coach, who's | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
been at big clubs and done it at big clubs. I would have thought that's | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
the kind of manager they'd go for. For now, it is up to Giggs and the | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
team around him to try and end the season on a high note. But this has | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
been a bruising year. And, for United, there could still be | :24:02. | :24:02. | |
difficult times ahead. It's been a royal tour rich in | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
pictures, Prince George's crawl about in New Zealand, the Duke and | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
Duchess of Cambridge being taught to DJ and a spectacular visit to Ayers | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Rock. Now it's over and the royal couple are on their way home from | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
Australia. So what impact has their visit had there on feelings about | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the monarchy? Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell sent | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
this report, which does contain some flash photography. | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
A final, solemn duty in the predawn darkness of Australia's national day | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
of remembrance, Anzac Day. At the end of a three week tour of | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
Australia and New Zealand, which is being described in Australia as the | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
most memorable royal visit for years. There's no question who the | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
star has been. From the moment Baby George was carried off the plane in | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
New Zealand to his appearance at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, his | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
photogenic appeal has eclipsed even that of his mother. But what of | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Catherine? She has tackled the tour with an ever-changing wardrobe, but | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
also with a willingness to join in, whether it be cricket in | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Christchurch... Or having her go at being a DJ in Adelaide. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Both she and William have dealt with the intense levels of attention with | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
patience and good humour. So, where does this all leave the monarchy | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
down under? Bill Shorten is the leader of Australia's opposition | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
Labour Party, which wants an Australian as head of state. Times | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
have changed, he says. But the monarchy question is ducked. We will | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
continue the relationship, not so much a mother country, but | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
continuous, oldest friend. With a monarchy in 50 years' time, say? Oh, | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
I can't even pick the winner on race five on Saturday, so I won't start | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
throwing my crystal ball about that debate. Insofar as these things can | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
be deciphered, the Australia from which they're departing seems, like | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
New Zealand, to be broadly content to leave constitutional matters like | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
the monarchy unchanged. This trio represent the monarchy's long-term | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
future. After this visit, there is a renewed confidence among monarchists | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
that Australia and New Zealand will wish to be part of that future. | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
That's all from us, don't forget a first look at the papers over on the | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
BBC News Channel. But | :26:36. | :26:37. |